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The Kalahari vs Texas
Texas, by almost nothing. It measures 688,751 km² against the Kalahari’s 687,100 km². The gap is 1,651 km².
Texas688,751 km²
Kalahari Desert687,100 km²
Texas wins by1,651 km²
How closea quarter of one per cent
A desert people file under “southern Africa, quite big” and a state people file under “the big one” are the same size to a fraction of a percent. France, the comparison Texas usually gets, is the one Texas actually beats by a clear margin.
Texas already placed on the Kalahari, on Equal Earth. The outlines nearly agree. Open this scene on the full map.
Areas are the shapes drawn on Map Real Size, measured on the sphere. Official land-area tables differ where they include inland water, a different coastline, or a disputed border. The Kalahari is a Texas.